#Betty boop cartoon code#
#Betty boop cartoon series#

Ministers of religion in their character as ministers of religion should not be used as comic characters or as villains.No film or episode may throw ridicule on any religious faith.Dances which emphasize indecent movements are to be regarded as obscene.Dances suggesting or representing sexual actions or indecent passions are forbidden.Dancing or costumes intended to permit undue exposure or indecent movements in the dance are forbidden. Indecent or undue exposure is forbidden.Undressing scenes should be avoided, and never used save where essential to the plot.This includes nudity in fact or in silhouette, or any lecherous or licentious notice thereof by other characters in the picture. Pointed profanity (this includes the words, God, Lord, Jesus, Christ вЂ“ unless used reverently вЂ“ Hell, S.O.B., damn, Gawd), or every other profane or vulgar expression however used, is forbidden.Obscenity in word, gesture, reference, song, joke, or by suggestion (even when likely to be understood only by part of the audience) is forbidden.ChildrenвЂ™s sex organs are never to be exposed.Scenes of actual child birth, in fact or in silhouette, are never to be presented.Sex hygiene and venereal diseases are not subjects for motion pictures.Sex relationships between the white and black races is forbidden.Sex perversion or any inference to is forbidden.Seduction or rape should never be more than suggested, and only when essential for the plot, and even then never shown by explicit method. In general passion should so be treated that these scenes do not stimulate the lower and baser element.Adultery, sometimes necessary plot material, must not be explicitly treated, or justified, or presented attractively.Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing.The use of liquor in American life, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization, will not be shown.Illegal drug traffic must never be presented.Methods of smuggling should not be presented. The use of firearms should be restricted to the essentials.Arson must subject to the same safeguards.Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc., should not be detailed in method.

Revenge in modern times shall not be justified.Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail.The technique of murder must be presented in a way that will not inspire imitation.Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it.The Fleischer Studios secretly fought back by putting in hidden sexual messages in their cartoons. The Hays Act cleaned up the media, censoring movies and cartoons.

#Betty boop cartoon series#

The Betty Boop cartoons were of an adult nature, and were not really for children, which is why the series was affected.

#Betty boop cartoon code#

Before the Hays Code, Betty Boop was a flapper girl who wore strapless short skirts, after the Code was imposed, Betty's dresses were made longer and her garter was hidden, not removed as falsely written in history, but hidden under her longer dresses.

In 1933 a theater owner complained to Film Daily that there was too much smut in cartoons, which is also what contributed to animation being censored. It was first published in 1930, as an attempt to introduce film censorship. The Hays Code of 1934 was the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines. Betty Boop before and after the Motion Picture Production Code.